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单词 junketeering
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junketeeringn.

Brit. /ˌdʒʌŋkᵻˈtɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌdʒəŋkəˈtɪrɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: junketeer n., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < junketeer n. + -ing suffix1. Compare earlier junketing n.
Originally and chiefly U.S.
The action or practice of going on political or press junkets (see junket n. 3b, 3c). Cf. junketeer n.
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1923 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Tribune 3 Aug. 1/6 Congressional junketeering in Russia as a vacation pastime may yet come home to roost tantalizingly near the junketeers.
1968 J. Hohenberg News Media xi. 171 Aside from the political and military aspects of foreign junketeering by representatives of the mass media, the most prevalent manner of promoting free trips today is to write for a travel magazine or the travel section of a large newspaper.
1994 Financial Times 23 Feb. 20/5 How silly to have believed there are politicians whose motives are any more high-minded than junketeering and re-election.
2014 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 8 July a5/2 Disclosed readily or not, junketeering has been on the increase.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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